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Kung Fu: The Aron Winter Story (Year One Edition)
Okay, so we're in our fifth winter without having made a foray into the MLS Cup playoffs -- that's a bad thing, right? Not so, according to the man in charge, Aron Winter. And while the Montreal Impact has been busy stacking their roster with names like Patrice Bernier, and rumors are swirling...
Critics' Choice 2011 MLS Draft: the experts weigh in with categories and grades for the Eastern Conference
The dust has settled and the equipment has been removed from the Baltimore Convention Center. The 2011 MLS Draft is in the book and let's turn to the experts to see how the other teams in the league did. For now we'll focus on the Eastern Conference. Thomas Floyd of Fanhouse.com had D.C. United...
What's In A Playoff Race?
After such a putrid first 14 or so league games of the season, in which our beloved Kansas City Wizards managed a whole 12 points, they had dug themselves in a great hole for the remainder of the season. Much like other Kansas City sports teams seem to do, once odds are firmly stacked against them,...
Three Questions: Toronto FC @ Kansas City Wizards
There will be none of this Saturday night at Community America Ballpark. Sorry, De Ro. Now that this past week's festivities/circus that was the friendly against Manchester United is over, I have to admit - I'm so excited about getting back...
It's Losing to a Minnow from Central America NightAgain!
We Canadian soccer fans, east and west, have an annoying habit of blowing things up to proportions they don't rightly deserve. Tonight, Toronto FC will take on C.F. Motagua in what the Toronto faithful are really hoping won't be a repeat of last year's debacle against the USL Division One Puerto...
Toronto - Vancouver Post-Game: May Contain Game-Related Content
This is one of those nights where it hardly seems to be worth talking about the game. The match was utterly dire, a bore of a scoreless draw between two clubs that could not possibly have cared less. The Whitecaps, playing predominantly a first team, came out like they had nothing to play for and...
Toronto - Vancouver Preview: It Doesn't Matter (Except That It Does)
The Voyageurs Cup is over. After the match tonight, Toronto FC will be presented with their justly-earned championship trophy even if they somehow contrive to lose this game by sixty. There's more of a chance of that than usual, given that Toronto has called up seven TFC Academy kids to at least...
The Draw Stings Like a Loss
I am emotionally drained and physically exhausted. I slump in an unfamiliar chair in North Vancouver, a nervous wreck devoid of intelligence or energy. It is eleven PM. I bought dinner from PetroCanada, because it's the sort of night when you want to buy dinner from a gas station at 11 PM, but it...
The Maple Leaf Forever Voyageurs Cup Preview
Everybody loves a preview article. It tells you nothing you didn't already know, takes up valuable minutes of your life you could spend learning a new language or spending time with your family, and at the end of it you'll disagree with whatever I wrote anyway. I don't know why writers, aside from...
A Semi-Fond Adieu to Jim Brennan
So, farewell then, Jimmy Brennan, riding gloriously off into the sunset after fourteen years of professional soccer, forty-nine senior international caps, and three seasons as captain of his hometown MLS team. Brennan is set to announce his retirement tomorrow afternoon, supposedly to become...
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